Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger - copyright 1999 This hardcover book issued with dustjacket is very good condition -Dustjacket in very good condition with no wear in protective cover and book has no torn or missing pages nor writing in the book
From
one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive,
and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those
few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton,
Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly
dismissed, or forgotten.
Here is Valentino, "the Sheik," who was
hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary
Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little
creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies,
unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and
"Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and
Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the
great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William
S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is
the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her
Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks;
and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin.
Also listed Robert TaylorSIGNED, Mary Pickford SIGNED, Veronica Lake, Mae Murray, Ramon Novarro, George Reeves - Superman, Betty Grable, Vincent Price SIGNED, Myrna Loy, Bette Davis SIGNED & other Hollywood Bios & Photos...........
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